Posted on 01/23/2023 1:41:51 PM PST by thegagline
A former top FBI counterintelligence agent based in New York who investigated the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia in 2016 is accused of illegally working for — a Russian!
Charles McGonigal was charged with money laundering and violating US sanctions law by working for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, the Justice Department said Monday.
McGonigal, who led the bureau’s NYC counterintelligence division between 2016 and his retirement in 2018, was arrested Saturday evening at JFK Airport. He pleaded not guilty to four counts in Manhattan federal court Monday and was released on $500,000 bond.
Sergey Shestakov, a court interpreter who also worked for Deripaska, was also arrested Saturday at his home in Connecticut. He pleaded not guilty to five counts Monday and was released on $200,000 bond.
McGonigal, who also served as the cyber-counterintelligence section chief in Washington, was one of the first FBI agents to learn that a Trump campaign official claimed that the Russians had “dirt” on then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, which triggered the investigation that continued into Donald Trump’s presidency.
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McGonigal is charged with four counts — conspiring to violate and evade US sanctions, money laundering, conspiring to commit money laundering and conspiring to violate federal law against doing business with sanctioned individuals. He faces a maximum of 80 years in prison. Shestakov is charged with the same offenses as well as an additional count of making false statements to investigators, which carries an additional maximum of five years behind bars.
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Amen!!!!
The USA was a much better place when we didn’t have our own KGB, and they didn’t control the politics of Washington DC.
Waterboard him first. May get Intel on other FBI stooges. Then shoot the traitor.
Clown world
I don’t want him shot.
Tempting, yes.
Put him inside a cell with enough light to read and no electronics be supplied to him, whatsoever.
And keep him there, the rest of his natural born days, with only one way out.
For every democrat of evil RINO/Socialist/Communist he successfully gets convicted he gets 1 day out a year.
Not alleged. Not without evidence four ways from Friday and on Sunday, as well.
Just the 1 day out a year.
He is part of the cabal that wanted Pres Trump and Tres Trump’s supporters to be jailed for life.
Let him live the punishment. It’s not revenge, either.
It’s his own standard.
From February 2018:
Bet he’s also tied to the Bidens.
The usual accusing your enemies of what you are doing.
Must be on page one of the Democrat manual of standards and practices.
He gets bail but the J6 grandma that walks down the hall doesn’t?
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